No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Certain definite activities have been undertaken by the Institute, as follows :
I. An office for the registration of men wishing to enter the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps was conducted during the summer by Dr. George F. Stradling, member of the Institute. Registration is still being carried on, and up to the present time 837 applications have been received and forwarded to the proper authorities.
~. Another direction in which the Institute has been of service is in the making of searches and submitting reports on various subjects to the National Research Council.
During the summer, at the suggestion of the Shipping Board of the United States, the President of the Institute authorized the organization of a School of Navigation. This School was carried on for several weeks at the Institute, and was then transferred to other quarters, at the University of Pennsylvania.
In response to a request from the Federal Board for Vocational Education, of Washington, D. C., the Institute has recently organized and is now carrying on a school for the training of men in receiving and sending wireless messages. Membership in the classes of this school is restricted to conscripted men who are sure to be included in the next or following calls, and whose physical eligibility for the service has been established.
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